{"id":36601,"date":"2019-05-26T08:24:33","date_gmt":"2019-05-26T15:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=36601"},"modified":"2019-05-26T08:24:33","modified_gmt":"2019-05-26T15:24:33","slug":"open-thread-5-26-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/05\/26\/open-thread-5-26-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread – 5\/26\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a busy day here in the CatBox, as I wait for WWWendy to arrive.  I may be unable to publish this to Care2.  The Care2 Glitch Monster has taken over the site.  It took 20 minutes to get to my message box, and it won’t let me into C2NN at all.  This is today’s only article.<\/font><\/p>\n

Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

Today’s took me 3:41 (average 5:12).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

From Daily Kos<\/a>: …<\/font>Enter GOP rep Mike Hill.<\/p>\n

Based on his Twitter and Facebook posts, he is one particularly nasty individual<\/a>. He refered to Muslims on Twitter as the \u201cdemonic Muslim horde\u201d and, on Facebook, posted a question on how his female Republican primary opponent could make decisions in office because she did not bear children.  <\/p>\n

It\u2019s this man who filed the so-called \u201cfetal heartbeat\u201d bill this session, which forbids an abortion after detection of a fetal heartbeat, which usually happens at the six-week mark in the middle of the first trimester\u2014long before a woman would know she\u2019s even pregnant.  It\u2019s based on complete junk science<\/a> as the director of gynecology at UC San Francisco explains, it\u2019s \u201ca group of cells with electrical activity. That\u2019s what the heartbeat is at that stage of gestation \u2026 We are in no way talking about any kind of cardiovascular system.\u201d <\/p>\n

The goal is, as always, to legalize a forced pregnancy.  <\/p>\n

However, the bill at least originally included exceptions for rape, incest, domestic violence, human trafficking or if the woman’s life is in danger. <\/p>\n

That is until God apparently got involved and called Mike up.<\/a> <\/p>\n

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As plain as day, God spoke to me. He said that wasn’t my bill, talking about the heartbeat detection bill that I filed. He said that wasn’t my bill. I knew immediately what he was talking about. <\/p>\n

He said you remove those exceptions and you file it again. <\/p>\n

And I said, yes Lord, I will. It’s coming back. It’s coming back. We are going to file that bill without any exceptions just like what we saw passed in Alabama.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Funny that God didn\u2019t mention anything to Mike about protecting our children from his party\u2019s refusal to do anything about our state\u2019s infamous gun violence.  After all, Florida now has more mass shootings of any other state<\/a>, including the two largest in US history with Pulse and Parkland. <\/p>\n

Republican Supply-side Jesus (the exact opposite of the real Jesus) teaches that the right to life begins at conception and ends at birth. RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font> <\/p>\n

From TPM<\/a>: <\/font>President Donald Trump on Saturday night downplayed North Korea\u2019s missile testing as \u201csome small weapons,\u201d and also claimed that North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un called 2020 Democratic candidate Joe Biden a \u201clow IQ individual.\u201d <\/p>\n

If I were Joe, I’d be thrilled. LOL! RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font> <\/p>\n

From Crooks and Liars<\/a>: <\/font>In a perverse sort of way, you’ve got to admire the chutzpah of these con artists. Despite getting millions in tax breaks<\/a>, flouting all kinds of labor laws<\/a>, and never once turning a profit<\/a>, the company behind this testament to fleecing the rubes are now suing their insurance carriers for refusing to cover…wait for it….an act of God. <\/p>\n

And yes, those are dinosaurs on their stupid Ark. <\/p>\n

Source: Louisville Courier-Journal<\/a> <\/p>\n

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The owner of the life-size replica of Noah\u2019s Ark in Northern Kentucky has sued its insurers for refusing to cover, of all things \u2026 rain damage. <\/p>\n

Ark Encounter, which unveiled the 510-foot-long model in 2016, says that heavy rains in 2017 and 2018 caused a landslide on its access road, and its five insurance carriers refused to cover nearly $1 million in damages. <\/p>\n

In a 77-page lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court, Ark Encounter asks for compensatory and punitive damages.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The ark damaged by a flood?!!? FOMCROTFPIMPLMAO!! RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font> <\/p>\n

Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font> <\/p>\n

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It’s a busy day here in the CatBox, as I wait for WWWendy to arrive.  I may be unable to publish this to Care2.  The Care2 Glitch Monster has taken over the site.  It took 20 minutes to get to my message box, and it won’t let me into C2NN at all.  This is today’s […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","category-religion","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","category-47-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}